介绍:
Passengers who plan to take China's high-speed rail over the upcoming Spring Festival may want to change their plans. Recent ticket price hikes put a ticket from Beijing to Shenzhen as high as 4000 RMB.
From January to mid-March next year, 8 additional daily high-speed trains will be set up between Beijing and Guangzhou, Beijing and Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and Shanghai and Shenzhen. The trains will run 6 days a week.
All trains will depart in the evening and arrive the next morning without any stops with sleeper cars only..
The prices of the train tickets will range from around 700 yuan to several thousand yuan. As the Spring Festival nears, the prices will get higher. Many are higher than full-price flight tickets that get the passengers to the same destination.
For a ticket from Beijing to Shenzhen, the price could reach more than 3,900 yuan in February, the highest among all its peers.
The newly-released prices have shocked many people. Discussion and debate are ongoing over whether the prices are reasonable and whether these extra trains are even needed.
Comments:
(JA) Zhou Junshen(周俊生) writes on ifeng.com,
"Transportation tools like high-speed trains are public goods, and they are under monopoly. It is a correct principle that prices are to be determined by the market. However, not every kind of good, especially public goods produced under monopoly, are applicable to this principle."
(ZJN) Zhang Haiying(张海英) writes on sina.com.cn,
"Obviously, with the diversification of people's needs, there will always be someone who is willing to tolerate the sky-high prices and take these trains. However, I want to raise a question: will these additional high-speed trains have a negative influence on the overall transporting capacity of the high-speed train system during the Spring Festival travel peak. After all, passengers on sleepers will take up more rooms. I wonder whether someone might not be able to get home because of these trains."
(LK) Wang Zhian (王志安) writes on Sina Weibo.com,
"For those to argue that some people might not be able to get home because of these trains, do you actually mean all passengers on trains should stand on their feet to save rooms for more people to get onto the trains?"
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(ZJN) SongYang1985 posts on Sina Weibo.com,
"In some cases, it is already a fact that taking a high-speed train is more expensive than taking a flight. Why do some people take it for granted that flight is always the most
expensive tool for traveling?"
(LK) linxin26888 comments on blog.sina.com.cn
"Anyone who can think economically would soon come to realize that compared with spending more money to sleep a whole night on train, a better choice is to spend less money to fly home, which gets you home more quickly."
(JA) An Dada(咹大大) writes on finance.qq.com,
"Normally, high-speed trains depart in the morning and arrives in the afternoon or evening. If we're going to have high-speed trains that depart in the evening and arrives in the morning, that's really good news for business people."
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